Newbe here.  I was told by Tech that I wouldn't be able to
install and run XP-H on a single drive with multiple
partitions. Reading through your group's questions -
answeres it appears I should be able too?. Any comments

I have a USB SD card reader connected to my Windows XP Pro (SP2) system.  
When I Explore the SD card, the names of the files and folders on the card
all contain illegal file/folder characters (e.g., / \, etc.), I believe the
data on the card is corrupted.

Ok, this is about compressed files. First of all, I put a compressed file
into my documents. I THEN added some personal files into ANOTHER compressed
file and placed that within the first compressed file. So we'll go by file1
and file2 for the compressed files. 1 being the ...

Whenever I tried to connect to the internet or turn on my printer, my
computer would crash to a blank screen with the power still on.  I checked
all the cables and opened up the case and I couldn't see anything that was
obviously wrong, so I decided to format my hard disk (which ...

I recently upgraded my wife's computer from NT4 to XP Pro SP2. Now she's
complaining her USB digital camera (Nikon 3500) doesn't AutoPlay when
she plugs in - it worked the very first time, but not since.
MSKB article 822660 describes this exact problem - but claims it was

i've recently brought a packard bell    i-extreme 9605 pc. sold through
pcworld a couple of years back.it originaly had windows millenium installed.
i'd like to upgrade to xp. is this possible? the original drivers disk is not
useable. will xp work.

Anyone else experience this? I connect a USB stick or external HD and the
next time I boot it says there is no boot device. Note that the USB device
has been removed before rebooting. Using an Intel 865PERL MB. No information
at Intel about it. USB boot is turned off in BIOS. ...

I have Orginial CD about Windows XP.Can I make it to XP include SP1 or SP2?
How to do that?

My recycle bin seems to be currupted on two of my eight drives. I have SP2
and all current updates, So how di I get this fixed? I have tried repair
options from the XP disk but didn't want to loose my data so never did a full
install again.

I installed the newest drivers for ATI Radeon 9200 SE, and my MS Word
sometimes crashes... Sometiemes it's really unpredictable. If you have
Catalyst soft installed and VRE ( or something like this ) turn on your
monitor will only turn off, you won't see a blue screen but if you ...

but, when I get to machines that have a SCSI drive of some type the computer
crashes midway through the install of XP OS. What is happening and what can I
do to remedy it.  

Can anyone tell me if it's at all possible to retrieve information from a
floppy that is now reading "Disk is not formatted.  Do you wish to format
now?", or is it totally lost?  The information was on there but suddenly I
can't get any PC to read the disk and I know if I click ...

I have a PC that is really running me around. The computer can see
the CD player and when trying to open or look into the CD, you can see
the CD player read light flickering. The problem is that it does not
show the CD contents when you say to open the CD or does not do an

I just upgraded my pc to be able to play the newest games and I asked
the builder if I could connect my pc to the DVI input on my Sony HD tv.
They said it was possible, so I went with it.  To wrap it up, It works
but the image is too big for my screen,  My start botton is off the

Yesterday I installed a new IDE 160gb HD on a Celeron 733 computer.
However, when I installed WindowsXP, the setup only formated my HD to
approx. 131000mb (~128gb)...
Why do I have this lost of space?  Is it because it's an older computer?